BRT Bios for "I do! I do!"

I DO! I DO! CAST & CREATIVE TEAM

	BRAD LITTLE (Michael) is thrilled to, once again, be returning to Bristol Riverside for the fourth time. The last time was 2006 where he and wife Barbara McCulloh performed together in Baby. In 2001, Brad won the Barrymore Award for his portrayal of Che in Evita. He also appeared at BRT in Irma La Douce, and maybe the most important show he has ever done was The Robber Bridegroom because it marked the point in his life where he first met his future wife Barbara. Recently, Brad has been over in Asia doing the tour of Phantom of the Opera, in China, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Mr. Little celebrated his 2,100th performance of playing the Phantom this last year, which also included his performances on Broadway and the US National Tour. His other Broadway and National tour credits include: Cyrano, the Musical, playing the role of Captain De Castel Jaloux; Fiddler on the Roof, with Topol; the Lincoln Center production of Anything Goes directed by Jerry Zaks, in which he understudied and played the role of Billy Crocker opposite Leslie Uggams. Brad won international acclaim for his portrayal of Jesus in the European Tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, and Tony in West Side Story. He’s recorded a Broadway CD called "Brad Little UnMasked" that includes songs from Phantom of the Opera, and a song he sings with Barbara from the musical Beauty and the Beast. CD’s are available to you in the lobby. But, his finest performance was on Labor Day of 1992, when at sunset on a beach at Cape May, NJ, Brad Little married his long time sweetheart in a ceremony performed by his dad, Dr. Paul J. Little. Brad dedicates this performance tonight to his friends in Battalion 9 of the New York Fire Department who lost 15 men on 9/11. Please visit www.bradlittle.com.
	BARBARA McCULLOH (Agnes) - Whether on stage, screen, or in the concert hall, Barbara McCulloh’s varied talents have made her an audience and critical favorite around the country and the globe. Equally at home in musical or dramatic productions, Broadway audiences enjoyed her playing and covering the role of Anna in The King and I with Lou Diamond Phillips at the Neil Simon Theatre for well over a year. Peter Pan fans will remember her as Mrs. Darling in both the long successful Broadway run and the A&E film starring Cathy Rigby. More recently, she was in the household of Richard Greenberg’s The House In Town at Lincoln Center and national audiences were treated to her performances as Blanche in the tour of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs. This summer Barbara debuted two new plays in New York: Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Helen Gahagan Douglas, in which she played the title role; and Iowa 08, at the Vineyard Theatre. As an accomplished classical actress, Barbara’s regional credits include Hamlet, Tom Jones, Wings, Tartuffe, Hayfever, Macbett, Irma La Douce, The Philadelphia Story, Much Ado About Nothing, The Foreigner, Vanities, The Sound of Music, The Taming of the Shrew, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Recent starring roles have been in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Sylvia, Blithe Spirit, As Bees In Honey Drown at, among others, the Pittsburgh Public, Walnut Street Theatre, Indiana Rep, Studio Arena, Syracuse Stage, Pioneer Theatre, American Heartland Theatre, Sacramento Music Circus, Delaware Theatre Co., Bristol Riverside, Barter, Olney, Tennessee Rep., Ford’s, North Carolina Theatre, North Shore, Riverside(Vero Beach), and Virginia Shakespeare. Her performance in 110 In The Shade earned her a Barrymore nomination as best actress in Philadelphia; her creation of Pauline in the world premiere of The Sweet Revenge of Louisa May won her a Helen Hayes nomination, again for best actress. She began her career in New York Off-Broadway in Romberg’s Up in Central Park, and continued Off-Broadway creating the role of Carolina in the Outer Circle Critics’ winner Kuni-Leml. From there she did the national tour of South Pacific with Richard Kiley. Other Off Broadway credits include the York Theatre’s On the Twentieth Century, Maury Yeston’s 1-2-3-4-5 at the Manhattan Theatre Club and The High Life and Leave It To Me for Musicals Tonite. Not only a theatrical actress, Barbara has had featured roles on television including Kitty in Courage the Cowardly Dog, Lynn Moody on Law and Order, SVU and Caroline Griffin on Another World. More recently, she has starred in two new independent films: In The Foxhole, represented at the Boston International Film Festival this June and previously chosen for Virginia’s Top Ten Films in America Festival; and the just completed A Child’s Laugh; Both films are currently in the renowned Los Angeles International Film Festival. As a narrator for audio books, she has recorded over fifty titles.

CREATIVE TEAM
EDWARD KEITH BAKER (Director) trained under Sanford Meisner and Martha Graham at the Neighborhood Playhouse, under John Houseman at Julliard and music studies at The University of Freiburg. Privately, he has studied with Lehman Engel (BH1 Musical Theatre Workshop), Michael Langham (former head of the acting department at Julliard and Artistic Director, Stratford Shakespeare Festival). He has been Artistic Director for the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival and the Florida Repertory Theatres. In 2001 Keith was invited by the US State Department to be a representative of the American Theatre to Armenia. He was so impressed with the theatrical tradition he found, he invited the renowned director of the Yerevan State Drama Theatre, Armen Khandikian, to make his American debut at BRT with his production of Forget Herostratus. Keith most recently directed Around the World in 80 Days and The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge, having last Season directed The Fantasticks and the World Premiere of I Married Wyatt Earp. Other productions he has directed at BRT in recent years include Olympus On My Mind, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Tete-A-Tete, The Skin of Our Teeth and The Woman In Black among his more than 25 productions for BRT including Chicago (nominated for six Barrymore Awards). His production of The Balkan Women won the 1998 Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play, and he was nominated as Outstanding Director of a Play for The Dresser at the 2002 Barrymore Awards. Keith has been nominated eleven times for the prestigious Carbonell Awards, for which he was twice the recipient for Best Actor. On stage, he was seen last Season at BRT as Robert in Proof, and George Hay in Moon Over Buffalo. Other BRT roles in recent years include Claudius in Hamlet, Herostratus in Forget Herostratus, Fredrik in A Little Night Music, Teddy Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace, and James Tyrone Jr. in A Moon for the Misbegotten. Elsewhere, recently, he took over the role of Jeeves in the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn musical By Jeeves at the Goodspeed Opera House and appeared on TV in two episodes of Stella for Comedy Central. Most recently he appeared on the BRT stage as Robert in Proof.
MATTHEW WARD (Musical Director) has played the Broadway orchestras of many shows, including Avenue Q, Tarzan, La Cage Aux Folles, Urinetown, Tommy, State Fair, and Blood Brothers. He was the musical director of two editions of the long-running Off-Broadway hit Forbidden Broadway (Strikes Back and Cleans Up its Act) and can be heard on those cast albums (DRG). Other Off-Broadway hits include Whoop-Dee-Doo (RCA records), Nunsense and Ruthless. At the New York Musical Theatre Festival, he conducted The Night of the Hunter with Brian Noonan, Beth Fowler and Dee Hoty, as well as providing musical continuity for the composer, the late Claibe Richardson. Regionally, he conducted the premiere of Maury Yeston’s In the Beginning, and numerous popular shows as South Pacific, Anything Goes, And the World Goes Round, Side by Side by Sondheim and Oil City. He is the composer of After the Fair, (book & lyrics Stephen Cole) which has been produced in New York (Outer Critic’s Circle nom.) Dallas (multiple Leon Rabin Awards) London, Chicago, Seattle and more. Casper (w/Cole) about the ghost, toured with the legendry Chita Rivera as star. His upcoming musical The Lady in Penthouse B, (book & lyrics by Peter Napolitano) is all about gossip and showbiz.
GREGORY DANIELS (Choreographer) is thrilled to be back at BRT. He choreographed last spring's highly successful production of Forever Plaid. He has choreographed the critically acclaimed production of Anything Goes at Houston's Theatre Under The Stars and also had the rare honor of creating a new original number for the World Famous Radio City Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall (Commerce Bank WOW Awards). Other choreography credits include the premiere of a new musical, All Her Faces: A Portrait of Dusty Springfield, the Coors Cold Revolution Industrial, and the current darling of the short film festivals I Love You, I’m Sorry, and I’ll Never Do It Again. He has served as Associate Choreographer for My Fair Lady (national tour) and regional productions of The Pirates of Penzance, Evita and Camilla (Walnut Street Theater-World Premiere). As a performer he has been seen in tours of Funny Girl with Debbie Gibson, The Great Radio City Music Hall Spectacular with Susan Anton, Anything Goes with Mitzi Gaynor and Hello, Dolly! with Michele Lee, in addition to West Side Story and A Chorus Line. Regionally he has appeared at the Walnut Street Theater, Sacramento Music Circus, Mill Mountain, Maine State Music Theatre, TUTS and Radio City's Christmas Spectacular in NYC. Thank you Keith, Susan and the BRT family. Love to Michael and "The Boys".
NELS ANDERSON (Scenic Designer)
SCOTT PINKNEY (Lighting Designer) is delighted to once again be returning to Bristol Riverside Theatre, where most recently, he designed I Married Wyatt Earp and where he has designed more than 25 productions since its founding, including The Balkan Women, for which he received a Barrymore Award Nomination, Evita, Chicago, The Robber Bridegroom, Happy Ending, The Brothers Booth, Macbet, Alive and Well, and The God of Isaac, among others. Mr. Pinkney was represented on Broadway by Harvey Fierstein’s Tony Award winning Torch Song Trilogy and The Glines One Act Festival. Off-Broadway credits include Mark Medoff’s Majestic Kid, Ken Ludwig’s Divine Fire, Cole Porter’s Nymph Errant, and the premier of Morris West’s The World is Made of Glass. His many regional credits include Don Juan for the Denver Center (Denver Critic's Circle Award), Living Room in Africa, for Israel Horowitz’s Gloucester Stage, My Fair Lady for Theatre Virginia (Phoebe Award), The Secret Garden for the Olney Theatre and Larry Gatlin’s new musical Texas Flyer for Theatre Under the Stars. Internationally he has designed ART and The Kiss of the Spider Woman for Singapore Rep, as well as Concerts for The Club Mohamed Ali in Cairo. Recently in Boston, he has designed The Glass Menagerie and Shakespeare in Hollywood for the Lyric Stage, The Sea Horse and Van Gogh in Japan for the Nora Theatre and Grease, All of a Kind Family and Hobson’s Choice for The Cutler Majestic Theatre. He has designed the last three seasons for The Barrington Stage Company, including productions of Uncle Vanya, Follies, West Side Story, Ring Round the Moon, Wonder of the World as well as several others. Mr. Pinkney is currently an Assistant Professor at Emerson College, teaching lighting design. He has served on the Boards of Directors for both the Cape Cod Performing Arts Center and Ballet New England. He lives on Cape Cod with his wife Debra, and their son Spencer.
LISA ZINNI (Costume Designer) Bristol Riverside Theatre credits include Hamlet, Tete-a-Tete, A Little Night Music, Smokey Joes Café, The Dresser and Evita. For the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival she has designed Amadeus, The Mystery of Irma Vep, My Fair Lady, Imaginary Invalid, Man of La Mancha, Hamlet (‘02), Charley’s Aunt, All’s Well, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Comedy Of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other credits include Corpse at the Cape Playhouse, King Lear and The Imaginary Invalid for the Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Around the World in 80 Days at Syracuse Stage and The Emerald Man for the NY Musical Theatre Festival. Lisa just celebrated 11 years with the Broadway company of Rent, where she serves as the Associate Costume Designer. She is also responsible for the national tours and international companies of Rent, and has had the opportunity to do the show in Canada, England, Italy and China. She invites you to visit her website at LisaZinni.com.
BLAIR WALSLEBEN (Production Stage Manager)

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